She is hot. She is burning up the charts. She is that “girl on fire.” On her fifth studio album, ‘Girl on Fire,’ Alicia Keys brings the heat. Since her last album ‘The Element of Freedom’ she has … Continue reading →

For the past few years, the snow around York has been practically non-existent with the exception of the one massive storm last October. As a snowboarder, this state of the weather is extremely disappointing. Last year, even Roundtop, which can … Continue reading →

THON~ February 2012 Penn State’s THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. Although the students work all year fundraising and raising awareness for pediatric cancer, everything leads up to the 46 hour no-sleeping, no-sitting dance marathon known as … Continue reading →

Fin and I stared at the lump of thick grayish goop on her plate. “There’s no chipped beef in this gravy. It’s all starch,” she complained, cautiously picking through the mass with a fork. “Oh, wait, there’s a speck. But … Continue reading →

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On a drive to the Weis across town the old doctor tells us about other people’s lives. “In that house, there, across the way that couple lived for forty years. Both my patients,” he says, “until the day they died. … Continue reading →

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Recently, my family and I put our heads together to come up with list of songs whose names contained people’s names for every letter of the alphabet. Confusing? Have a look below. With a little help from the Internet, I … Continue reading →

I’m pretty sure it actually doesn’t get better than this. ‘Recomposed by Max Richter. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons’ is so beautiful that I got very, very close to crying when I heard it on the radio (good old NPR). I resisted … Continue reading →

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